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Look Back 2024
Packing a bigger and more powerful emotional punch in less than an hour than most films can do with nearly double the length and larger resources, Look Back is a tale of friendship, what draws us to pursue art, and the human condition that's gut-wrenching to an overwhelming degree yet still overflows with unabashed warmth and a deep-rooted hope for brighter things to come.
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Flow 2024
An oft-intense yet heartwarming survival story with not a single word spoken that nonetheless manages to communicate so much and so vividly, Flow is a truly special kind of film that makes me remember why I fell in love with cinema — and the sheer, raw power of what it can do — in the first place, aided by spellbindingly gorgeous animation and some of the best and most evocative sound design of any film from last year.
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The Strangers 2008
Teasing its audience with the prospect of something fresh and new and instead giving them a lazy and shallow product that we've seen time and time again, The Strangers is a horror film that doesn't at all deserve the befuddling praise it has gotten over the past decade, with horrendous pacing, annoying jump scares, underdeveloped characters who make the stupidest decisions you can think of, and wooden performances.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
NOTE (05/06/2022): This was my initial reaction back when I saw it in March of 2016. My feelings on this film have changed significantly since then.
With its intense and exciting action sequences, excellent performances (with the exception of a laughable turn from Jesse Eisenberg), and dazzling visual spectacle being let down by an overstuffed and incoherent script that's filled to the brim with poorly written characters and needlessly convoluted plotting, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice tries to be…
